The Boy Scouts of America elected Dr. Robert M. Gates, former secretary of defense and former director of central intelligence, as the organization’s national president during the National Annual Meeting on May 22.

For 20 years, something that’s a little different as a fundraiser — something fun, something outdoors, something that takes just a few hours and includes good food, brings out a lot of the same people year after year after year, and it raises money to help more kids get outdoors